Well this is the third pair of wings offered I believe. The original wings from the collector's edition, Kerrigan's wings, and now these. I don't see a issue with limited time things. That's usually how Blizzard does special items.

Okay re-read it and the weird wording of it, it seems they're already out. The part you quoted seems to indicate that the local servers are active which means you'll be playing on your Australia/New Zealand server. They communicate with American servers so it should be located under Americas. It's basically like if I were to be on the east coast and log in, it would put me on a closer server than one on the west coast. If you read further into it working with American servers this seems to be the case. You should be auto defaulted into a closer Australian server if you're nearer to there.

Never really thought of it that way but I never really do the farming runs like everyone else. I just derp around whatever act I feel like at the time, although admittedly at lower exp/drop chances than farming certain areas.

It would be nice for it to be completely equal but at a point that does become a bit harder and near impossible. Blizzard knows this though, they aren't shooting for absolute equality as they've said recently about Mira runs, they just want it to be comparable to normal leveling. So I imagine once the rest of the game is comparable to these farming areas then they'll stop nerfing more and more of them. That way people like me who just fight where they like the scenery and spawnrate will still get near the same results as someone farming a specific area repeatedly because it's faster runs or some such.

Please note how Brevik was the ONLY one left out of Schaefer and Co.s new studio.............. (when they were all together for Flagship)

Pretty sure Bill Roper was also? After Hellgate not doing well and Mythos being sold off before it was even finished that's when Schaefer branched out more by himself I think with Matt Uelmen on board to do music.

There's no real reason to take this personal guys, lets not forget these are just strangers on the internet, i doubt any of us are personal friends.

The interview definitely seems like it was aimed at coaxing negative feedback out of Brevik.

In my opinion though you can't take the all of the positives of D1 and D2 and attribute them to Brevik, just like you can't take all the negatives of D3 and attribute them to Wilson. If Brevik had worked on the game alone who knows if we would have ever gotten a D2 at all. Whole teams worked on all games. Some of the team from Blizzard North went on to become more successful like Max Schaefer and his team, they've shown they have a good grasp at what it takes to make a good ARPG.

I do think Blizzard wants to keep Diablo alive, they don't want the game to feel like its bad and they want the franchise to continue so they'll continue to patch and work on it. Don't expect WoW typed patches, they'll probably be months and months apart but they'll be there.

"There was talk, back during the Reddit AMA, about bosses dropping rares on the first kill past normal difficulty. Did this make it into 1.0.4?"
"That did not make it into 1.0.4, but it is still something we want to add to the game."

I could swear patch notes said this change was made. Did Jay Wilson misspeak or am I having a senior moment?

You know I'm remembering something really similar being said but I can't remember what either. I remember seeing it in the patch shortly after AMAA and thought at first it was that change but it was just worded really similar.

You're not completely off your rocker. It's not in the game but I remember thinking for a moment it was in some patch notes too.

I've never understand the need for everything to be exclusive. I bought the D3 CE but I'd be fine if people could buy the wings for 10$. It's just cosmetic and I don't need to feel like a unique and special snowflake by being the only person in my four player game to have them.

If I have to buy the MoP CE just to get them, that's another 80$ down the drain.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with putting things cosmetic in the blizz store for people to buy. It's fairly easy to make a few bucks here and there on the RMAH. There is a lot wrong with putting something really enticing in a CE. If I choose to support the game I'm playing by paying for cosmetic items, I don't see that as a bad thing.